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   In the Beginning...

The Actors Workshop was established by Lyn Kidd in 1994 at the request of industry stakeholders. After a year of initial classes, demand grew for midterm training focusing on the skills and knowledge required for working in Film and Television. This led to the one year part time, film and television course.

In 1995, the school moved from its original studio in Fortitude Valley to become a tenant in the Metro Arts Building.

By 1998, after continuous review and improvement of the training plan each year, the school identified the need for quality training pathways for students seeking full time training for Film, Television and Theatre Acting.

In 1999, the Advanced Diploma of Film, Television and Theatre Acting was accredited and listed on the Australian Qualifications Framework. The course was the first of its kind, offering dedicated dual medium application for the entire duration of the training strategy.

In 2000, The Actors Workshop received its Registered Training Organisation status, certifying it as the quality assured organisation that it is known as today.

In 2001, the need for additional space to supply a full time training strategy led to the school moving from its tenancy at the Metro to its current location, Foresters Hall in Trinity Lane, Woolloongabba. 2001 also marked the first enrolment of students in the accredited training delivery, on a part time basis.

In 2002, the first full time, 2 year Advanced Diploma class commenced and in 2003 these graduates entered industry.

2004 was the 10th year of trading for the school and brought recognition from the film and television and training industries. The school's founder received the prestigious Kinetone Award from the film and television industry, while the school itself was selected as the Small Training Provider of the Year at the Queensland Training Awards.

In 2009, the courses were re-accredited until 2014, continuing to be recognised as important vocational qualifications for the film, television and theatre sectors.

In 2010 Principal Lyn Kidd and Camera Class instructor Mungo McKay were awarded the Media Mates Award from the Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE for assistance given to the students from the Certificate IV and Diploma of Screen Media.

Today the school casts over 100 short film projects a year, supplies over 500 hours of role play service to community and lists over 30 industry awards achieved by graduates and emerging film makers supported by the school.

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An amazingly technical yet basic device,the lenses job is simply to see. In extreme close-up the slightest hesitation or vacancy by the actor will be picked up. Vice versa, it loves thoughtful, rehearsed and committed actors.
Emotion is a visceral reaction to a situation or circumstance. Feeling is the intellectual faculty of choice.
Repetition is a device for throwing an idea into prominence. Répétition is also the french word for rehearsal.
The protagonist is a wilful being, powerful enough to sustain desire, through conflict, having strength to take action and cause change.
Release. Breathing. Centering. Articulation. Diction. Resonance. Projection. Intonation. Pitch. Pause. Phonetics. Cold Reads. Radio Plays. Vocal Warmups.
Jungian archetypes are an important tool for character analysis & creation. In essence, most archetypes are patterns derived from historical roles in life or universal events/situations (initiation, death, rebirth etc). Archetypes are further shaped by unique individual unconsciousness.
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A shot over the shoulder of one actor (whose shoulder may be recognised as 'dirty in frame'), focusing normally on the face and upper torso of the other actor in a scene; generally shot in pairs so both actors expressions can later be edited together.
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Choreographed by Director & DOP to give the scene different positions. Marks can be placed at specific points for the actor to move. Hitting the mark is one of the most vital skills an actor must sustain. When 'starting positions' is called, the actor is to return to their first position.
Myths are stories that hold a universal truth. Not literal, but beyond the literal. They are the stories we tell to explain the inexplicable. The cosmos around us: the roots of our existence: the cogs of our perspective.
"Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way."... Eugene Ionesco
The actor's adjustment of body position away from what might be absolutely "natural" in order to accommodate the camera; can also mean looking in a different place from where the other actor actually is.
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